Adi (17) is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquility of the village starts to crack.
1962 – Twelve-year-old Karla is a witness in court. She files charges against the very person who was supposed to protect her: Her father. Judge Lamy is the hope at her side.
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DE 2025, 104 Min., deutsche Originalfassung mit englischen Untertiteln Regie: Christina Tournatzés Kamera: Florian Emmerich Schnitt: Isabel Meier mit: Elise Krieps, Rainer Bock, Imogen Kogge, Torben Liebrecht, Katharina Schüttler
A film that is shot truly open-endedly, in the thick of it, even though – at the outset – it was impossible to predict what would happen. Liat is forcibly abducted from her kibbutz by members of Hamas on 7 October 2023 and shortly afterwards Brandon Kramer starts filming with her family. He’s right there with them, up close, as the parents Yehuda and Chaya try to deal with their fear – or to sway the fate of their adult daughter and her husband in dialogue with the authorities. As a US citizen, Yehuda flies to the USA, accompanied by Liat’s son, who is burdened by more than the public attention, and Liat’s sister, who will try to cushion Yehuda’s temper and anger. Because even within this family views are polarised: despite his pain, the father takes a critical view of Israel’s role in the Middle East conflict. He is a pacifist and will not be dissuaded from the path of reconciliation, even at the geopolitical epicentre of diplomacy and trauma. He persistently swims against the tide, takes issue with himself and everyone else and berates the Israeli government. A candid film of the hour. Insights don’t come from politics, but from Liat’s family.
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US 2025, 97 Min., Englisch, Hebräisch OmU Regie: Brandon Kramer Kamera: Yoni Brook, Omer Manor Schnitt: Jeff Gilbert
Slowly, 12-year-old Anna and her deaf mum are starting to feel a bit cramped in their flat. It’s not just the lack of privacy that’s causing friction – Anna has just started secondary school and quickly realises what’s important now: brand-name clothes and a sense of belonging. She quickly gets hold of a fake Ralph Lauren jumper, but money’s still tight. In her debut, director and author Marie Luise Lehner stages a confrontation with classist structures, which Anna tackles with a mixture of shame and grit. She finds an ally in Mara, who challenges others with feminist issues and who also lives alone with her queer father. Lehner stands by her heroes unconditionally, giving them space for introspection and outbursts, allowing them to row back and reconcile. Not fitting in allows them to get to know and appreciate who they are. Lehner flies the flag of solidarity, quite naturally and with plenty of references to pop culture. And closes with a liberating “Fuck you, Vienna”, high above the city’s rooftops.
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AT 2025, 87 Min., Deutsch, Deutsche Gebärdensprache, Englisch OmU Regie: Marie Luise Lehner Kamera: Simone Hart Schnitt: Jana Libnik, Joana Scrinzi, Alexandra Schneider mit: Siena Popović, Mariya Menner, Jessica Paar, Daniel Sea
Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.
Cannes 2025 – Jury Prize
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DE 2024, 149 Min., Regie: Mascha Schilinski Kamera: Fabian Gamper Schnitt: Evelyn Rack Darsteller*innen: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt
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Kinotrailer „In die Sonne schauen” – Kinostart 28. August 2025
A middle-class Palestinian family in Haifa sees life spiral out of control under the oppressive reality of contemporary Israeli society.
The daughter, Fifi, is studying in Jerusalem and gets into a car accident; the son, Toufic, is involved in secret romantic liaisons and must contend with an unwanted pregnancy; and the father is embroiled in what could amount to insurance fraud.
Oscar nominee Scandar Copti (Ajami, 2009) presents a gripping family drama as his second feature film. Led by an ensemble of non-professional actors, it interweaves the stories of multiple characters whose fates are undeniably – and resentfully – interlinked. The characters in this masterfully written screenplay, grounded in intimate portrayals of moral relativism, walk a fine line between conceding to and resisting the status quo of Israeli state violence. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024 and won the Horizons Award for Best Screenplay.
The film tells the story of the 2020 racist attack in the city of Hanau in the German state of Hesse from the perspective of the bereaved relatives and the survivors. Within the space of just a few minutes, the perpetrator shot nine young people dead because he did not consider them to be German. What are the direct and long-term consequences of such an attack on people and their city? Director Marcin Wierzchowski accompanied the protagonists for four years as they faced their grief and strived to come to terms with the loss of a loved one. But the film also reveals their struggle for recognition and a sense of belonging in the country they call home. The relatives feel abandoned by the authorities and politicians alike because, despite many words of sympathy, they themselves are left to uncover the circumstances of the crime. In the process, they encounter the cold bureaucracy of a system that is woefully unprepared for such an attack – even though right-wing terror is a tragically commonplace part of German history.
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DE 2025, 132 Min., Deutsch, Rumänisch, Türkisch, Englisch OmU Regie: Marcin Wierzchowski Schnitt: Stefan Oliveira-Pita Kamera: Marcin Wierzchowski, Peter Peiker
Vom 10. – 17. September findet dieses Jahr zum 20. Mal das größte polnische Filmfestival außerhalb Polens statt (mehr, Katalog). Im fsk zeigen wir alle sieben Wettbewerbsbeiträge und zwei Specials:
Cluj, Transylvania. After being driven from his shelter in a house cellar, a homeless man commits suicide. Orsolya, the bailiff who carried out the eviction, is impelled to make various attempts to address her feelings of guilt. Using a mixture of drama and comedy, topics as diverse as the housing crisis, post-socialist economics, nationalism and the power of language to maintain social status are dissected with a sharp, absurdist scalpel, in a movie-literate narrative that plays partly as a homage to Rossellini’s Europa ’51 – not least in the modesty of this independent, low-budget production’s means. But while in Rossellini’s film a woman’s crisis of conscience leads to meaningful activity, here the protagonist facing the dilemma is unable to find anybody to understand her and becomes increasingly desperate for external reassurance and validation, in a manner that would be easy to condemn if Orsolya’s moral relativism were not such an uncomfortably accurate reflection of a modern-day malaise from which few of us are wholly immune.
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura’s presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past…
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DE 2025, 86 Min., deutsche OmeU Regie: Christian Petzold Schnitt: Bettina Böhler Kamera: Hans Fromm mit: Paula Beer, Barbara Auer, Matthias Brandt, Enno Trebs
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